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General Support Fund for the Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group (WC-PH)
start date2023-01-01
end date2023-12-31
budget (local currency) 
amount requested (USD)0 USD
grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
funding program roundundefined round
organization (if applicable)Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group

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Applicant details[edit]

Wikimedia username(s):

Organization:

Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group

G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did receive a grant

H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Additional information[edit]

R. Where will this proposal be implemented?

Philippines

S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:

Local

S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal[edit]

1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?

The Philippine Wikimedia Community envisions itself as a free, open and vibrant organization of Filipino volunteers and content editors from the Philippines and overseas, who believe in the mission and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Movement in its entirety.

As a recognized affiliate organization, our community aims to initiate, promote, participate, create, organize, develop and engage in projects, programs and activities that promote free, responsibly open-content resources and reference materials; in English and in different Philippine languages; through cost-effective, creative and innovative projects and partnerships with local government units, government agencies, academia, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?

We aim to transform our organization into a robust and sustainable operating unit.

We wish to set our administrative matters and functions in place; henceforth our volunteers and officers may do what they do best. We aspire to break out of the Rapid Grant cycle, wherein time and process could potentially hamper productivity.

We also would like to expand our geographic scope, through the creation of satellites. We cannot declare less concretely that PhilWiki shall inevitably reach out to Philippine language communities nationwide, e.g. Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Chavacano, and so forth.

3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

Considering that PhilWiki is professionalizing from the ground up, we shall initially focus on requirements enabling our SEC-registered User Group to qualify as a Non-Government Organization. We shall outsource professional administrative tasks from qualified agencies for regulatory functions such as Legal, Accountancy, Institutional Communications and staffing.

4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

The foremost activity shall be "setting up shop." Our office address must become a functional space, where our members may attend to do their editing work, uploads and service bureau for our events, meetings and communications. We shall take responsibility for the facilitation of sustainable activities, involving mass media, influencers in the local community and strategic alliances for outreach.

The 2nd, 3rd and 4th Quarters of PhilWiki's fiscal year shall be undertaken with three attainable outreach activities, with the intent to generate interest, build capacity and sustain time-bound campaigns, namely (1) Wiki Loves Earth, (2) Wiki Loves Culture, and (3) Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, into sustainable and recurring activities.

5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?      

No

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?

N/A

6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.

JANUARY – MARCH 2023

● Office Setup, Outsourcing: Accountancy, Legal, Admin ● Radio Wikipedia promotion - Wikipedia 22nd Birthday (January 16) - Advocacy campaign ● 1st General meeting & meetup – Wikipedia 22nd Birthday (January 16) ● Radio promotion - Women's Month (March) – Awareness campaign in support of WikiGap ● PhilWiki Community Annual Meeting (March 18)

APRIL – JUNE 2023 ● Wiki Loves Earth Philippines (April) – Outreach and photo contest ● 2nd General Meeting: Capacity Building (June)

JULY – SEPTEMBER 2023 ● Wiki Pages Wanting Photos Philippines (July-August) – Outreach and editing contest ● Radio Wikipedia promotion - National Language Month Celebration (August) – Awareness campaign

OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2023 ● Radio Wikipedia promotion - Bikol Wikipedia Day (November 24) – Awareness campaign ● Community Meetup and Conference - Bikol Wikipedia Day (November 24) ● Wiki Loves Food Philippines (December) – Outreach, editing and photo contest

7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?


8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Content Gender gap, Language

8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

A balanced mix of men and women in our roster of Officers clearly exhibits Gander Gap awareness in our midst: Chair (f), President (m), Secretary (m), Treasurer (f), Member/Officer (f). Nine (9) of our Nineteen (19) Regular Members to date are male, outnumbered by females by one. In our calendar, we have included radio shows during Women's Month (March) in support of WikiGap.

9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Public Policy

10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status, Age

11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?

Our activities are aimed towards developing a competitive level of proficiency in identifying subjects of cultural and heritage-centric significance. Our strategies for recruiting such participants are matched with promotional activities and incentives. These are incentives not only intend to build capacity but to actually harness talent in the community.

12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?

Friendly Space Policy will be observed in in-person activities and online sessions.

13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

We are continually engaging ourselves in interactions with our ESEAP hub, which in turn will open avenues for collaboration with affiliates in our region and in our own archipelago. Currently, we have a pending collaboration with the Commons Photographers User Group in context of Wikimania 2023.

14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

No

14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

N/A

15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PhilWiki_Community/Board_Meetings/2021/Resolution:_Policy_on_Establishing_a_PhilWiki_Community_Branch

16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.

In our endeavor to realize NGO (Non-Government Organizatioon) status, we may encounter administrative bottlenecks and/or hurdles. We shall look to consultants and professionals to surmount possible setbacks in this regard.

17. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion

18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.  

Yes

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

The fund proposal will effectively be transformative, starting with outsourced administrative functions that will liberate PhilWiki to do what it does best. Retention rates for participants will likewise improve due to wider incentives.

20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.

Main Metrics Description Target
Number of participants N/A N/A
Number of editors N/A N/A
Number of organizers N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.

Additional Metrics Description Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability N/A N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications N/A N/A
Number of activities developed N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A

21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants N/A N/A
Number of editors N/A N/A
Number of organizers N/A N/A
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?


Financial Proposal[edit]

23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

 

23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

0 USD

23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.

N/A

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Other public document(s):

Final Message[edit]

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

No

Feedback[edit]

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